[1] Misterrogers is a member of the Mars-crossing asteroids, a dynamically unstable group between the main belt and the near-Earth populations, crossing the orbit of Mars at 1.66 AU.
[1] The naming was proposed, and citation prepared, by Dr. John G. Radzilowicz, Director of the Henry Buhl, Jr. Planetarium & Observatory at the Kamin Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[10] Rogers had a lifelong fascination with the sky and astronomy, obtained a pilot's license while still in high school[11] and also produced with the Kamin Science Center a planetarium show called The Sky above Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,[12] which is still shown at many planetaria across the United States.
[4] In April 2011, a rotational lightcurve of Misterrogers was obtained from photometric observations by Brian A. Skiff at Anderson Mesa Station.
Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 8.066±0.007 hours with a brightness variation of 0.13 magnitude (U=3).